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Extending Prerendered-Interface Voting Software to Support Accessibility and Other Ballot Features , Ka-Ping Yee, UC Berkeley 08/06/07 innovation, ballot design, This work builds on the prerendered user interface (PRUI) approach for high-assurance voting software with a new design that supports...
An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack Against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal , Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Alexander Russell, Narasimha Sashidar, Andrew See, and Alexander A 08/06/07 opscan, attack, ballot design, Recently, two e-voting technologies have been introduced and used extensively in election procedures: direct recording electronic (DRE) systems and optical...
Audit Report of the Election Systems and Softeware, Inc.'s, iVotrinic Voting System in the 2006 General Election for Sarasota County, Florida , Kurt Browning, Secretary of State, FL Dept. of State, Division of Elections 02/23/07 FL2006, FL CD13, residual votes, ballot design, iVotronic, ES&S, testing, ...
Final Report, Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory Dr. David Wagner, Mike Burmester, Breno de Medeiros, Gary Tyson, Alec Yasinsac, FSU, Dr. Michael Shamos Ph.D., J.D. 02/23/07 FL2006, FL CD13, residual votes, ballot design, iVotronic, ES&S, testing, On December 15th, 2007 the Florida Department of State (FLDoS) commissioned an independent expert review of the ES&S iVotronic 8.0.1.2 firmware,...
Ballot Formats, Touchscreens, and Undervotes: A Study of the 2006 Midterm Elections in Florida , Laurin Frisina, University of Rochester, Michael C. Herron, Dartmouth College, James Honaker, Jeffrey 02/13/07 FL2006, FL CD13, residual votes, ballot design, The 2006 midterm elections in Florida have focused renewed attention on undervotes, ballots on which no vote is recorded in a...
Factors Associated with the Excessive CD-13 Undervote in the 2006 General Election in Sarasota County, Florida Dr. David Dill, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Cornell 01/23/07 FL2006, FL CD13, residual votes, ballot design, Based on statistical analysis of detailed electronic ballot and event log data from the Sarasota general election ending November 7, 2006,...
Parallel Test Summary Report for Sarasota County, FL , FL Dept. of State Bureau of Voting Systems Certification 12/18/06 FL2006, FL CD13, residual votes, ballot design, iVotronic, ES&S, testingx, Florida Division of Elections conducted two parallel tests of the iVotronic touchscreens in an effort to replicate the undervote count...
Prerendered User Interfaces for Higher-Assurance Electronic Voting Dr. David Wagner, Ka-Ping Yee, Marti Hearst UC Berkley, Steven M. Bellovin Columbia 08/01/06 interface, ballot design, innovation, We propose an electronic voting machine architecture in which the voting user interface is prerendered and published before election day. The prerendered...
Augmenting Voting Interfaces to Improve Accessibility and Performance Dr. Ted Selker, Jonathan A. Goler, MIT, Lorin F. Wilde, MIT 01/01/06 ballot design, usability, accessibility, cognitive modeling, Reading disabled (RD) voters represent approximately 1 in 7 voters. Current electronic voting technologies exhibit substantially different error rates between RD voters...
Review of the gap between instructions for voting and best practice in providing instructions National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Janice (Ginny) Redish, Ph.D. 12/09/05 language, instructions, usability, ballot design, human factors, Voters are exercising an important right as American citizens. If they cannot understand how to use their voting materials, they may...
Ballot Design and Unrecorded Votes on Paper-based Ballots , David Kimball,Martha Kropf 12/01/05 ballot design, paper, residual votes, 2000 election, ...
Beyond the Hanging Chad: The Promise and Performance of Electronic Voting Paul Herrnson, 10/26/05 ballot design, usability, ...
Measuring the usability of paper ballots: Efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction , Sarah P. Everett, Michael D. Byrne, and Kristen K. Greene, Rice University 08/16/05 ballot design, usability, paper ballots, The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 secured funding for improvements to election administration. Improvements include upgrading older voting systems...
Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduces Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface Dr. Ted Selker, Matt Hockenberry, MIT, John Goler, MIT, Shawn Sullivan, MIT 02/01/05 ballot design, usability, accessibility, interface, overvote, undervote, This paper demonstrates opportunities for reducing errors with orienting graphical interface for voting. We have built many interfaces to explore opportunities for...
Who Does Better With A Big Interface? Improving Voting Performance Of Reading For Disabled Voters Dr. Ted Selker, Jonathan A. Goler, MIT, Lorin F. Wilde, MIT 02/01/05 ballot design, usability, accessibility, This study shows how ballot interfaces variably affect the voting performance of people with different abilities. An interface with all information...
Defining a Summative Usability Test for Voting Systems , Whitney Quesenbery, Usability Professionals' Association 09/01/04 usability, accessibility, ballot design, At the UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) 2004 annual conference, a group of interdisciplinary professionals held a workshop to consider issues...
An N-Version Electronic Voting System Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Soyini D. Liburd, MIT 07/01/04 electronic voting, voting security, voting system architecture, N-version programming, ballot design, The ballot battles of the 2000 US Presidential Election clearly indicate that existing voting technologies and processes are not sufficient to...
A Ballot Designer and Ballot Design Critic Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Elizabeth Herbert, MIT 09/01/02 ballot design, usability, 2000 presidential election, butterfly ballot, The weeks following the 2000 Presidential Election were filled with uncertainty as Americans waited to hear the outcome of the Florida...
Ballot Design Options Michael Alvarez, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 02/01/02 ballot design, voting instruction, language, usability, Does ballot design "matter"? Does the design of ballots influence how voters cast their ballots, and thereby affect the outcome of...
Disenfranchised by design: voting system and the election process , Susan King Roth, Information Design Journal 01/01/98 ballot design, usability, Two studies of voting systems in use identified design problems related to the display height of text, organization of information...
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